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The Reconquest was when the Spanish took back Spain from the Muslims. It was a long process that started in 1085 and ended in 1492.
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Temples were a very important part of the Aztecs. They used them as mountains and they thought that the higher they were the closer they were to heaven and the gods. They also used these to have sacrifices on.
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The Aztecs had been searching for more than 150 years and finally found the eagle on the cactus that Huitzilopochtli told them to find. They then built the land on lake Texcoco.
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The Black Palgue killed millions of people in Europe between the years 1348-1350.
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Church official put non-Catholics on trial to convert or be exiled. This was then called The Spanish Inquisition.
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Montezuma II started to rule Tenochtitlan. The empire is 80000 square miles and a population of 25 million people.
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The Spanish arrived in Tenotchitlan and took over the Aztecs home. They went to war and the Spanish won.
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Cortes sailed from Cuba to Mexico with 11 boats and 500 men.
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Cortes was a Spanish soldiar that sailed to Tenochitlan. They went to war and the Spanish won.
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Montezuma was killed by his own people. They threw rocks at him untill he was dead.
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THe Aztec caleneder was found in Mexico City in 1760. The calender was called the sacred calender and was 260 days long.
